Post by High Priestess on Dec 25, 2016 15:56:31 GMT
Is that a request or a demand? Awkward? Yes, it can be!
www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/say-youre-just-a-friend?utm_term=.bkE2rkErP#.avBYmRemy
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As soon as she booked the Airbnb listing, Ms. Root got a message from her host that’s probably familiar to regular users of Airbnb: The host said that she wouldn’t be there for the duration of the trip, and that Root should ask for the key at the front desk when she arrived. “I’ll leave an envelope,” Root remembered her host saying in the message, “but don’t mention Airbnb.”
“It was like, ‘Ugh, god, am I really paying to do this?’”
Right away, Root started to worry — why would a security guard give her keys to an apartment when the owner wasn’t home? And how could she pass herself off as an old friend of her host’s when the two had never met? Said Root, “It was like, ‘Ugh, god, am I really paying to do this?’”
Hosts ask guests to hide the fact that they’re using Airbnb all the time. It happened to a woman named Lisa on her vacation to Spain, a travel blogger named Alex during a trip to Europe, and a New York entrepreneur named Siddharth, whose San Francisco host explained the request for secrecy by saying, “Airbnb is controversial.” A web search turns up around a dozen listings in cities including Kobe, Hong Kong, San Diego, and LA that say “don’t mention Airbnb” right in the public posting.
“It was like, ‘Ugh, god, am I really paying to do this?’”
Right away, Root started to worry — why would a security guard give her keys to an apartment when the owner wasn’t home? And how could she pass herself off as an old friend of her host’s when the two had never met? Said Root, “It was like, ‘Ugh, god, am I really paying to do this?’”
Hosts ask guests to hide the fact that they’re using Airbnb all the time. It happened to a woman named Lisa on her vacation to Spain, a travel blogger named Alex during a trip to Europe, and a New York entrepreneur named Siddharth, whose San Francisco host explained the request for secrecy by saying, “Airbnb is controversial.” A web search turns up around a dozen listings in cities including Kobe, Hong Kong, San Diego, and LA that say “don’t mention Airbnb” right in the public posting.
